Dough-roller



UNITED vSTATES PATENT OFFICE.

D. B. BAKER, OF ROLLERSVILLE, OHIO.

DOUGH-ROLLER.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 51,539, (lated December19, 1865.

.- This invention relates to a device for rolling bread and otherdoughs; and it consists in the use of a traveling platform, upon whichthe dough to be rolled is placed, in connection with a roller hung insuitable bearin gs above and extending across the said platform, saidroller being so hung as to be susceptible of adjustment with regard tothe said platform at pleasnre, so that by causing. the platform to bemoved forward and backward under the said roller in any proper mannerthe dough placed upon the same can be rolled either thick or thin, asmay be desired, and in either case of an even thickness throughout.

In accompanying plate of drawings my improved rolling device forbread-dough, &c., is illustrated, Figure l being a View of one end ofthe same, and Fig. 2 a central longitudinal vertical section of thesame, taken in the plane of the line :r az, Fig. l.

a a in the drawings represent two parallel uprights or standardsconnected together by cross-braces b b of any desired number, betweenwhich uprights, at their lower portion, extends a roller, c, turning inbearings at each end of the same, and also having at each end a toothedpinion or gear-wheel, d. Above this roller c is placed a horizontalplatform, f, of a width equal to the distance between the two standardsa a, which platform is supported at each end upon rollers g g, hung inuprights hh of the same, and by toothed rack-bars l l upon its underside, along each of its sides, engages with the pinion-wheels of theroller c, so that by properly turning the crank-handle m, secured to oneend of the said roller c, the platform will be made to travel forwardand backward between the two standards, moving upon thesupporting-rollers g g at each end of the same.

Above the platform and between the two standards a a, turning inslide-boxes 'a fn, of the same, is hung a roller, the said boxes a nmoving in a vertical slot or way, p, of each standard. Each of theseboxes n n is hung upon a spring-lever arm, q, turning upon a fulcrum, r,of the standards a. a, the outer ends of which levers are connectedtogether by a cross-bar, s. Y

t is a rod extending across from one leverto the other, and turning inthe same, on which rod, at each end, is hung a pawl, u, engaging witheatoothed rackgv, formed upon the curved edge of each of the standards.

By bearing down upon the connecting-rod to which the pawls are hung, asdescribed, the roller o can he lowered in position or brought nearer tothe traveling platform, where it is held by the interlocking of thepawls with the toothed racks of the standards, and by raising the saidrod, rst disengaging the pawls from the said racks, the roller can beraised to any desired height from the platform, where it is held byagain interlocking the said pawls with the racks, the spiral springs w wof the leverarms in each case holding the pawls so engaged and theroller from falling, as is manifest without further explanation, and byan inspection of the drawings.

The dough to be rolled is placed upon the platform and the roller aboveit adjusted to the desired thickness to which it is to be rolled, whenthe crank-handle is properly turned to cause the platform to travelforward and backward under the roller, the dough beingfed to the same,by which the dough is consequently rolled, the vertical adjustability ofthe roller enabling the dough to be rolled to any desired thickness,according to the purpose for which it is to be used, whether forbiscuits, pie-crusts, wafers, &c., as is obvious, and, moreover, of aneven thickness throughout.

The dough-rollin g device I intend to provide with clamping devices, sothat it can be secured to a table or other suitable device when used.

I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. The device forrolling bread and otherl l doughs herein described, the same consistingof a traveling platform in combination with a o hungin adjustablebearings of the ystandards roller or rollers hung in adjustable bearingsa a, arranged together substantially as and for above the same7 arrangedand operating tothe purpose specified.

gether, substantially in the manner described. D. B. BAKER. l

2. The traveling platform supported at each Witnesses: Y

end upon rollers g, and operated by a pinon- A. B. COOK,

and-rack gear, in combination With the roller T. T. STEWART.

